Sunday, August 24, 2008

A pig face

Here is a little better idea of what China grocery stores have to offer...  I went into a main grocery store in Nanjing today and as soon as I walked into the store there was this scent that hit me.  It was like nothing I have ever smelled before.  It was very foul and smelled like rotten meat/fish/nastiness all mixed together in thick air.  The smell got worse as I walked to the meat and produce section.  So being curious as to what could possibly smell this bad, I walked over in that direction.  To my surprise, I saw a fully skinned pig face hanging from a meat hook!  Just as I turned my head before almost puking, I saw a child putting his hand on the raw meat and playing with it!  That did it for me and I booked it out of that section!  I bought cookies.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope those cookies were fortune cookies and that you got one that said "It only gets better from here!" ;-)

Thank God for the good ol' FDA & USDA, huh!?

This is great, keep it coming! We can all live vicariously through you.

Cheers!
Shane

Emily B said...

Ha ha seriously the standards for things here are SOOO different! But I love it, culture shock!

Kim said...

Hopefully the kid isn't a nail biter. Just say the word and I will send you some hand sanatizer.